Tribune Company

Tribune Company is a major U.S. media company with interests in newspapers, radio and television stations. Among the 11 newspapers it owns are the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. It owns cable network Superstation WGN, part of the TV Food Network, and radio channel WGN-AM. It also owns the Chicago Cubs. Top competitors are Dow Jones & Company, Gannett, and New York Times.

Samuel Zell, who has a personal fortune of $US6 billion, engineered a leveraged buyout of the company in 2007. He beat out billionaires Eli Broad, Ron Burkle, and David Geffen for the company.

Tribune Broadcasting
Tribune Broadcasting is the television, cable and entertainment division of the Tribune Company. "Tribune Broadcasting owns and operates 26 major-market television stations and reaches more than 80 percent of U.S. television households. The group is anchored by Superstation WGN, which can be seen in more than 66 million U.S. households via cable and satellite services. Nineteen Tribune stations are affiliates of the growing WB Television Network, in which Tribune holds a 22 percent equity investment," it states on its website. 

Tribune Entertainment produces television programming for the company and for national syndications.

Personnel
Key executives and 2006 pay:
 * Dennis J. FitzSimons, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, $6,336,407
 * Donald C. Grenesko, Senior Vice President Finance and Administration
 * Ruthellyn Musil, Senior Vice President Corporate Relations

Selected members of the Board of Directors:
 * Betsy D. Holden, Former Co-CEO of Kraft (2001 to 2003)
 * Robert S. Morrison, Former Vice Chairman of PepsiCo, Inc., Former Chairman and CEO of Kraft (1994 to 1997)
 * Samuel Zell, Chairman and President of Equity Group Investments, LLC

Contact details
435 N. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60611 Phone: 312-222-9100 Fax: 312-222-1573 Web: (Home page) http://www.tribune.com Web: (Tribune Broadcasting) http://www.tribune.com/about/broadcasting.html

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